Packaging Technologist
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Req #3443
Monday, January 6, 2025
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world's best-known companies.
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Position: Packaging Technologist
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León
Summary:
- Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.
- Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier's packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.
- Generate packaging information for the developing of new packaging designs and new packaging.
- Support the correct follow-up of innovative and sustainable projects of the company.
Major duties & Responsibilities:
Support on New products developments:
- Responsible for developing, validating, and implementing new packaging products for finished goods based on customer requirements and plant guidelines.
- Ensuring that packaging products meet set requirements and specifications.
- Generation of packaging plant procedures, specs and standards for new products developments.
- Cost packaging creation for new developments.
- Define net weight and sizing for new developments.
- Define correct configuration of stack pattern.
- Assistance to validate the correct packaging in the new products trials.
- Run trials to check packaging for suitability and testing for performance under various conditions.
New packaging and packaging design developments:
- Business relationships with technical packaging suppliers.
- Contact with cross functional teams, customer, and suppliers, to support topics related to design and new packaging.
- Evaluating and selecting packaging items with suppliers.
- Supply packaging information to generate primary and secondary labeling.
- Review and validate packaging information in each primary and secondary labeling developed that involves design.
- Sign and coordinate the correct process flow starting with the design development, contact with the supplier to obtain the mechanical plane until set up it in our ERP system.
- On some occasions, attendance at packaging print runs.
GPE, Optimize costs & Innovation:
- Recognizes opportunities on raw material supplier's packaging to optimize costs and handling while maintaining quality.
- Support on the identification, developments, implementation and follow up improvement and/or cost savings/avoidance in packaging projects.
- Evaluating and selecting new packaging suppliers.
- Evaluating packaging proposals focused on the company aspirations as Sustainable packaging.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Engineer with experience on food packaging at least 3 years.
- Knowledge of print production and understanding of file setup and printing parameters.
- Power Point and Excel preference.
- Advanced English.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding or related medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristic or information, AIDS or HIV status, order of protection status, marital status, military or veteran status, unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, participation in benefit programs, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity, Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship, safety, and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job Family Product Development
- Job Function Operations
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator MEX - 90 Days
- Required Education Bachelor's Degree